Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Christmas: a word often used as a burden or an exclamation in Christmas songs; hence, a Christmas carol, properly one written polyphonically.
- n. An obsolete form of newel.
- n. In founding, the inner part of the mold for castings of large hollow articles, such as tanks, cisterns, and steam-engine cylinders of large size. It answers to the core of smaller castings.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of noel.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete Christmas; also, a shout of joy at Christmas for the birth of the Savior.
- n. (Mus.) A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediæval origin, sung in honor of the Nativity of our Lord; a Christmas carol.
- n. The core, or the inner part, of a mold for casting a large hollow object.
- n. The bottom part of a mold or of a flask, in distinction from the cope; the drag.
Examples
“Fig. 1 shows an ordinary "gate" of fitting patterns being drawn from the drag or nowel part of the mould by means of a spike and rapper wielded by the moulder's hand after cope and drag have been rammed together on a "squeezer" and cope has been removed.”
“From Middle English nowel, from Middle French nouel (kernel), from Late Latin nucalis”
“If you make the whole story a nowel, i promise you that i'll read it, I was too late to start with this, and i didn't want to rush through 13-14 chapters hehe.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nowel’.
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Christmas
carol, yule, noel, nowel, yuletide, melampodium, toyon, wassail, pantomime, simnel, epiphany, luminaria and 37 more...
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In the now
in the know, in the no
nada todo, aei, humicubate, psychiasis, tamim, mininow, now-away, nowel, winnow
Tweets
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